Improvement in sprinklers



A. s. PENNINGTON & E. BEGGS'.

Sprinkler.

No. 203,0 9. Patented April 30,1878.

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WITNESSES ATTORNEYS,

MPETERS, FHOTQ-LITHOGRAFHEH, WASHINGTON. Dv c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON S. PENNINGTON AND EUGENE BEGGS, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPRbVEMENT IN SPRINKLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,069, dated April30,1878; application filed October 27, 1877.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AARON S. PENNING- TON and EUGENE Bnecs, ofPaterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and Improved Sprinkler, of which the following is aspecification:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a verticallongitudinal section of our improved sprinkler; and Fig. 2, a top viewof the same, partly in horizontal section, on line w as, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has reference to an improved sprinkler, of cheap andcompact construction, for lawns, streets, &c., by which water may bethrown in a circle from three to twenty-five feet and more in diameter,according to the pressure of water let on.

In the drawings, A represents a tubular socket-tube, that is screwed tothe end of the water-conductinghose.. B is a vertical sockettube, thatis screwed or otherwise secured at right angles to the firstsocket-tube, and provided with radial water-discharge holes B at theside. A rose, O,of circular shape, is fitted tightly to the second tubeB, the lower part or shoulder a of the rose bearing on the tube B, whilethe upper part or shoulder b is supported on a tapering or otherbearing, d, of tube B, the rose being retained thereon by a screw, D,with large head, bearing on the top of the rose.

The bearings of the rose on the tube are of different diameters, for thepurpose of allowing the roseto revolve easily at a high as well as at alow pressure of the water, as otherwise the rose would lock itselfagainst the head of the retaining-screw.

The rose 0 is provided with a number of discharge-holes, d, at the outercircumference, which holes are placed in a plane passing preferablythrough the hole B,-but bored at a certain angle of inclination throughthe rose, so asto produce the revolving motion of the same by theforcibledischarge of the water through the holes. A smaller number ofdischarge-holes, d, is bored through the shell of the rose, but arrangedat an opposite angle of inclination and in upward direction, for thepurpose of retarding the speed of the rose, for throwing the water at agreater distance, and also for throwing a second number of jets at ashorter distance from the rose, so as to distribute the water over thewhole surface, and give jets of different direction and form.

The sprinkler is secured to the ground by means of a bottom pin, E, ofnot more than a quarter of an inch in thickness, so as not to mar theground, secured to the socket-tube A, so that the rose revolves in ahorizontal position, and throws thereby the water in mosteffectivemanner, sprinkling to a greater or smaller distance, according to thepressure let on by the stop-cock.

Thezsprinklin g device is very compact, easily repaired, and cheap, onaccount of its simplicity and absence of expensive supports.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination ofthe screw-pipe A, the laterally-perforated pipe B, and the revolvingrose 0, as shown and described.

A. S. PENNINGTON. EUGENE BEGGS.

